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Ian Black

Ian Black spent 36 years at the Guardian, including time as Middle East editor, European editor, diplomatic editor and foreign leader writer. He died in January 2023. Read his obituary

October 2022

  • Ian Black and Helen Harries photographed in the home in London, July 2022

    My brain is shrinking – and so is my world. Could I find out what’s wrong with me?

    First, the veteran Guardian foreign affairs correspondent found himself lost for words; then he started falling while out jogging. He and his wife Helen Harris try to make sense of a life-changing year

August 2022

  • Aziz Shehadeh (centre back) in court following the assassination of Abdullah, king of Jordan, 1951.

    We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I by Raja Shehadeh review – family and politics collide

    Raja Shehadeh and his father, Aziz, both Palestinian lawyers, had different views on how to achieve statehood for their nation. Raja recounts their struggle, and his father’s murder, in this highly readable memoir

March 2022

  • A composite photograph of items from Ian Black’s collection of political memorabilia

    The Guardian picture essay
    From a Thatcher nutcracker to a Trump toilet brush: my curious collection of political memorabilia

  • Jerusalem’s 16th-century walls, built by the Ottomans.

    Observer book of the week
    Nine Quarters of Jerusalem by Matthew Teller review – a new map of a contested city

October 2021

  • Sultan Mehmed II, from the Sarayi Albums, c. 1480.

    The Ottomans by Marc David Baer review – when east met west

    This highly readable account encourages us to see the Ottoman empire as an inseparable part of the history of Europe

May 2021

  • Margaret Thatcher, 1985.

    From the Guardian archive
    Margaret Thatcher makes promise to help the Palestinians – archive, 1986

    27 May 1986: British premier holds talks with political figures from the occupied West Bank and Gaza

March 2021

  • Victims of alleged gas attack in Eastern Ghouta<br>DAMASCUS, SYRIA - APRIL 08: An affected Syrian kid receives medical treatment after Assad regime forces allegedly conducted poisonous gas attack to Duma town of Eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria on April 08, 2018. At least 78 civilians dead, including women and children, according to the initial findings. (Photo by Mouneb Taim/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Red Line by Joby Warrick review – Syria, spies… and sarin

  • Ahmed Zaki Yamani<br>FILE - In this Dec. 14, 1976, file photo, Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani listens to newsmen's questions during a news conference at Doha, Qatar, after he arrived to attend OPEC meeting. Yamani, a long-serving oil minister in Saudi Arabia who led the kingdom through the 1973 oil crisis, the nationalization its state energy company and later found himself kidnapped by the assassin Carlos the Jackal, died Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in London. He was 90. (AP Photo, File)

    Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani obituary

November 2020

  • FILE PHOTO: Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat looks on during a news conference following his meeting with foreign diplomats in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank<br>FILE PHOTO: Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat looks on during a news conference following his meeting with foreign diplomats, in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 30, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman/File Photo

    Saeb Erekat obituary

  • Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin speaks to a crowd of more than 100,000 Israelis at Tel Aviv’s municipal square, 4 November 1995.

    From the Guardian archive
    Israel's Yitzhak Rabin assassinated at peace rally - archive, 1995

October 2020

  • Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah in 2017.

    Sheikh Sabah al-Sabah, emir of Kuwait obituary

    Ruler of Kuwait for 14 years who was known as ‘the dean of Arab diplomacy’

September 2020

  • Portrait de Meron Benvenisti<br>Portrait de l'écrivain Meron Benvenisti en août 1995 à Jérusalem, Israël. (Photo by Esaias BAITEL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

    Meron Benvenisti obituary

  • Two Egyptian girls hold hands as they walk past banners from left to right, depicting former Arab singing star Umm Kolthoum, former Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez, and former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, with Arabic writing that reads, “Arafa’s children,” in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

    Adrift: How the World Lost Its Way by Amin Maalouf – review

August 2020

  • Protests against UAE’s deal with Israel to normalise relations<br>Palestinian sit as cutouts depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are seen on the ground during a protest against the United Arab Emirates’ deal with Israel to normalise relations, in Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank August 14, 2020. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta

    The UAE-Israel deal will make a two-state solution even less likely

    Ian Black
    Whatever the motives of the Gulf state for agreeing to the peace accord, it marks a change in Arab solidarity with Palestinians, says Ian Black, a former Guardian Middle East editor

June 2020

  • Rosemary Hollis

    Rosemary Hollis obituary

  • Palestinians in Gaza protest against Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank in Gaza, Palestine on 11 June.

    Israel's annexation of the West Bank will be yet another tragedy for Palestinians

    Ian Black

May 2020

  • Abdallah Azzam

    The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad review – recent history at its finest

    Thomas Hegghammer delivers a meticulously researched account of a charismatic Islamist

April 2020

  • Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

    MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman review – riveting account

    A chilling study of the Saudi crown prince

February 2020

  • Hosni Mubarak, in 1991, 10 years after becoming president.

    Hosni Mubarak obituary

    Ruthless autocrat who hung on to power in Egypt for more than 30 years

January 2020

  • Palestinians protest against US Middle East peace plan

    This ‘deal of the century’ for the Middle East will be just another bleak milestone

    Ian Black
    By backing Israeli annexation and denying Palestinians their rights, Donald Trump is only perpetuating the conflict, says former Guardian Middle East editor Ian Black
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